Two Smart Blondes
Two Smart Blondes
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Leila McDougall and Kirsten Diprose bring on a well-known guest each week to discuss the latest in film, TV, media and pop culture. If you're talking about it, then so are we! Get up to speed and have a laugh in the process.Leila is a film producer and actor (best known for her movie, "Just a Farmer") and Kirsten is a journalist and podcaster, with much of her career at the ABC. They both live on farms... and yes, they're blondes.
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Covers a range of topics in entertainment and media including critical discussions about the Oscars' treatment of genres like comedy and horror, analysis of current events in sports, and explorations of pop culture phenomena like music festivals and rom-coms, with episodes featuring guests discussing relevant issues such as the impact of AI on creativity and the nostalgia for 90s television.
Leila McDougall and Kirsten Diprose bring on a well-known guest each week to discuss the latest in film, TV, media and pop culture. If you’re talking about it, then so are we! Get up to speed and have a laugh in the process.
Leila is a film producer and actor (best known for her movie, “Just a Farmer”) and Kirsten is a journalist and podcaster, with much of her career at the ABC. They both live on farms… and yes, they’re blondes.
Our special guest is Matt Neal, ABC journalist, crime author and film reviewer. This week we dive into:
- Trump threatens a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US
First it was China, now all movies made outside the US are likely to be hit by the latest round of tariffs announced by the US President, Donald Trump. Trump says he wants to put a stop to other countries luring movies away from the US. So what does this mean for Australia, which offers big incentives for US film productions to be made here?
- Did all those bloody spam election texts work?
According to my phone messages, someone called ”Trumpet” is one of my top friends. Now I have never messaged him back… but my goodness Clive Palmer loved to spam us all with messages this federal election campaign. So did it actually work? Well Trumpet of Patriots… didn't win a single seat in the lower house. For the millions of dollars spent on advertising and spamming us all. Nothing. Clive wasn't the only one on the text… seems a lot of the independents were too. So how do we feel about the election text?
- Prince Harry's entitled BBC interview
Prince Harry, wants to reconcile with his family now… and get them to pay for security as he and Meghan travel around the US. He recently did a TV interview with the BBC, saying that his father, King Charles isn't speaking to him at the moment due to a legal battle over his security protection. Is Harry the only one, who can't see just how ridiculously entitled this comes off as?
- American actors are FINALLY getting better at Aussie accents. Why?
We used to be able to pick the Yankee playing an Aussie in a movie a mile away. There'd often be a slight cocknee twang… a Kiwi vowel mix up … or they simply couldn't fully shake the ”r” sound at the end of words. But there have been some seriously good accents lately… for instance, the actor playing Belle Gibson in Apple Cider Vinegar, nailed the an Aussie accent. So how come foreigners are finally able to do it?
This is a Rural Podcasting Co. in collaboration with VAM paddock productions
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